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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard John Boehm.

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RICHARD JOHN BOEHM

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 23, 1951 – March 28, 1971

Service record

Richard John Boehm, of Mandan, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1971, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 85

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 23, 1951
Home of record
Mandan, North Dakota (Morton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 28, 1971
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1971; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 85

Same unit, same day

From Mandan

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.